Royal Ascot Review: Is Field of Gold Unbeatable? O’Brien’s Five-Star Juveniles & the Rise of Lazzat

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 162 minutes

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🎧 Final Furlong Podcast – Royal Ascot 2025 Review After tipping big-priced winners and tracking the key stories all week, Emmet Kennedy is joined by Laura Joy, Adam Mills, George Gorman, and legendary bookmaker Gary Wiltshire for a full debrief on a spectacular Royal Ascot. 👑 Field Of Gold’s demolition job in the St James’s Palace Stakes stole the show — but is there any horse in Europe who can stop him over a mile? We weigh in on future targets and whether Ruling Court or Henri Matisse can close the gap. 🐎 Cercene crushed Zarigana in the Coronation Stakes — but what’s the truth behind the French filly’s form and… behaviour? 🏇 Docklands struck early in the Queen Anne — but was he really the best horse in the race? And what now for Rosallion, Notable Speech & Lake Forest? 🔥 Middle-distance stars emerge: Ombudsman rises in a blistering Prince of Wales’s Rebel’s Romance proves he’s not done yet in the Hardwicke Trawlerman grinds out Gold Cup glory — but is the division weak? 🌪️ The Sprinter Shakeup:British & Irish sprinters flopped again. Can Lazzat rule the sprint scene in Europe? Was American Affair a fluke — or the real deal? 👶 Juvenile Watch: Gstaad gives Aidan O’Brien his 11th Coventry win Charles Darwin smashes RPR records in the Norfolk – Nunthorpe next? True Love gives O’Brien a first Queen Mary win Venetian Sun dazzles for Karl Burke in the Albany Chesham winner Humidity looks a classic type 📈 Plus: roundups on wins for Trinity College, Carmers, Amiloc, Merchant, and Noble Champion. 🧠 Expect:✅ Honest, passionate analysis📊 RPR + time figure insights🎯 Betting reflections🔥 Future Group 1 projections Form Tools: Proform is the essential tool for punters looking to make money from betting on Horse Racing. Our form book covers Jumps and Flat racing in the UK and Ireland. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.proformracing.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @FinalFurlongPod Email: [email protected] In association with Adelicious Podcast Network. Hosted on Megaphone. Follow us for free on Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3e6NnBkr7MBstVx5U7lpld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	Welcome to the Final Forlum podcast and our review of Royal Ascot, 2025. It is great to have your
0:35.4	company. Thank you so much for all the support in the preview shows. Hopefully you were well rewarded with a few winners. You might have been taking some money
0:40.9	from our first guest on the show. It's our favorite bookmaker. Gary Wiltshire is back.
0:45.7	Hello, Gary. Good evening, Emmett. Good evening. Oh, I'm at live. I'm in Royal Barks here, but not at Ascot. We're at Windsor tonight. So we've just got a result there.
0:55.8	We've just got a favourite. It turned over six to four to five. They wanted to play the boys and
1:01.0	they've done their absolute. Who needs Royal Ascot when we've got Windsor?
1:06.2	The show never stops, Gary. How was Asket Week for you?
1:10.7	Well, funny enough, where I am, where my pitch is, I'm only there for the
1:14.6	residents of a basket. They've got a little square in the middle of the track.
1:18.6	And you don't have to buy a ticket to get a...
1:22.6	And it's just one of them places where, like, it's very small bets, two 50 each way. But I was, I would have
1:28.8	thought on Saturday we had about 600 people there and they're all residents. They all bring
1:33.4	me sausage rolls, cornice pastis, scotch eggs, egg and tomato sandwiches, honestly, it's
1:38.9	different class. Like come out there, I must put on two stone on Royal Alaska Saturday it's so much fun
1:44.9	and that's what
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